In 1996, when Twister was released, “climate change” didn’t fairly carry the very actual, very doom-laden weight that it does now. Today, dangerously freaky weather grabs alarmingly regular headlines, so the time feels ripe for an replace—and right here comes Twisters to convey us killer tornados aplenty.
Be aware that Twisters isn’t being marketed as a sequel to Tornado, Jan de Bont’s summer time blockbuster that starred Helen Hunt and the late Invoice Paxton as married however estranged storm chasers, together with an enormous ensemble forged that included Cary Elwes, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Ruck, and Jami Gertz. That movie was notable for cutting-edge particular results that introduced its terrifying storms to life—in addition to that superior scene during which a twister rips up a drive-in film display proper in the course of the axe-chopping scene in The Shining.
In December, Glen Powell—who’s a part of a brand new big ensemble forged that additionally contains Kiernan Shipka, Daisy Edgar Jones, future Superman David Corenswet, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Daryl McCormack, and Maura Tierney—advised Vogue, “It’s positively not a reboot. We’re not attempting to recreate the story from the primary one. It’s a totally authentic story. There aren’t any characters from the unique film again, so it’s probably not a continuation. It’s simply its personal standalone story within the modern-day … people versus climate is a really common concept—how powerless we actually are within the face of those cataclysmic forces.”
You gotta marvel: is Twisters’ apocalyptic climate even within the realm of science fiction anymore? Directed by Oscar nominee Lee Isaac Chung (Minari), with a script by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant, Overlord, The Midnight Sky, The Boys within the Boat), Twisters arrives July 19.
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